We Went to Hawai'i!

We Went to Hawai'i!

As part of our growing practice to center wellness and joy, Visual Communications Staff and Armed With a Camera Fellows took a renewal trip to Hawai'i.

“I loved connecting with people in a relaxed and casual atmosphere. It was really important as I came away, not only feeling closer to everyone, but also really valuing the community we have and inspired to keep building community.

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In Focus: AWC 2022-2023

In Focus: AWC 2022-2023

Intersections and convergences are effective ways for us to safely connect with each other. But we also need to be brave and welcome collisions. It’s easy to coalesce as an Asian American & Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander community when we’re going against hate and white supremacy. However, the required work needed for us to build collective power is to confront issues that divide us. From across the dinner table to discuss why Black Lives Matter with our families, to acknowledging Asian settler colonialism in Oceania, these power structures are replicated and represented in media. Most often, our always-present Indigenous interconnections are made invisible.

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Filmmaker Profile: Quyên Nguyen-Le

Filmmaker Profile: Quyên Nguyen-Le

While the latest cycle of Visual Communications' Armed With a Camera Fellowship is barely over, already one of our seven 2015-2016 Fellows' productions is attracting heated attention — NUʼÔʼC, an experimental narrative by Quyên Nguyen-Le, whose filmmaking background has been augmented by studies in Comparative Literature, Philosophy, and Politics. In a conversation with VC summer program associate Joey Scher, Quyên talks about the making of NUʼÔʼC and the challenges of applying formalist cinematic languages into short-form filmmaking.

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